Short Stories (single author)
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Dropped Calls
$25.95 Add to cartDropped Calls will ring like a lost phone and have you scrambling to pick up the call. Should water, food, and even the air we breathe become threatened? Providence assembles at the bugler’s call. Whe… [more below]
- Author: McGuiness, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: January 05 2024
- ISBN10: 9798886934724
- Language: English
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Some of Tim’s Stories: Volume 2
$14.95 Add to cartShort Stories from the bestselling author of The Outsiders, plus exclusive interviews
A teenager when she first gained fame, now a seasoned writer, S. E. Hinton takes her trademark themes to a new lev
- Series: Oklahoma Stories & Storytellers #2
- Author: Hinton, S. E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0806138351
- Language: English
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Only Wounded
$16.99 Add to cartIreland, home of legendary poets and storytellers, has been wracked by bloody sectarian violence over the last quarter century. Bombs and guns were, and once again are, the primary negotiation tools u
- Series: Stories of the Irish Troubles #1
- Author: Taylor, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 26 2016
- ISBN10: 0765335239
- Language: English
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Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf
$16.99 Add to cartP.G. Wodehouse often said that he wished he’d spent more time playing golf and less “fooling about writing stories and things.” Happily, the prolific and beloved satirist often took his pen to the gre
- Series: P.G. Wodehouse Collection
- Author: Wodehouse, P. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0618009272
- Language: English
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Dreamsongs, Volume I
$22.00 Read moreEven before A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin had already established himself as a giant in the field of fantasy literature. The first of two stunning collections, Dreamsongs: Volume I is a rare… [more below]
- Series: Dreamsongs #1
- Author: Martin, George R. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0553385682
- Language: English
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Sicilian Stories: A Dual-Language Book
$16.95 Read moreWith his novels, short stories, and plays, Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) achieved renown in the Italian verismo (realist) school of writing. This outstanding selection of 12 short stories — most from th… [more below]
- Series: Dover Dual Language Italian
- Author: Verga, Giovanni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 14 2002
- ISBN10: 486419452
- Language: English
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The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith
$21.95 Add to cartIn a cruel twist of irony, Texas-born Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) is being recognized only after her death for her inestimable genius in her native land. With the savage humor of Waugh and the maca… [more below]
- Author: Highsmith, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: December 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393327728
- Language: English
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The Theory of Light & Matter
$21.00 Add to cartThese ten stories take us across the country–from rural Pennsylvania to Southern California to suburban Connecticut–and deep into characters struggling to find meaning in their day-to-day lives. The… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Porter, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0307475174
- Language: English
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Homeland: And Other Stories
$17.99 Read more“Extraordinarily fine. Kingsolver has a Chekhovian tenderness toward her characters. . . . The title story is pure poetry.” –Russell Banks, New York Times Book Review
With the same wit and sensitivity
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Kingsolver, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 006227774X
- Language: English
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Eight Men
$19.99 Add to cart“[Wright’s] landscape was not merely that of the Deep South, or of Chicago, but that of the world, of the human heart.” —James Baldwin
In these powerful stories, literary giant Richard Wright probes t
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Wright, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0061450189
- Language: English
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The Bar at Twilight
$17.99 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE
An incomparable storyteller serves up an enchanting concoction of art, love, and longing
In fifteen masterful stories, Frederic Tuten entertains questions of existential m
- Author: Tuten, Frederic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1954276036
- Language: English
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First Snow on Fuji
$16.95 Add to cartThe stories of Yasunari Kawabata evoke an unmistakably Japanese atmosphere in their delicacy, understatement, and lyrical description. Like his later works, First Snow on Fuji is concerned with forms … [more below]
- Author: Kawabata, Yasunari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: October 12 2000
- ISBN10: 1582431051
- Language: English
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Twenty Stories
$20.00 Read moreThe selection of the best stories from a lifetime of fictions by the acknowledged master of his craft.
- Author: Driscoll, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 9798985469714
- Language: English
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Suite as Sugar: And Other Stories
$19.99 Read moreSuite as Sugar is a testimony to the unseen forces, always vigilant, ever ready, imbuing the characters in this collection with both resilience and trauma.
From Winnipeg winterscapes to Toronto’s condo… [more below]
- Author: Hernández-Ramdwar, Camille
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1459750713
- Language: English
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Almost Deadly, Almost Good
$14.95 Add to cartAh, behold thy Sins and Virtues! Both get poor suckers in hot water all the time. ALMOST DEADLY, ALMOST GOOD explores how human nature is just a flip-floppy beautiful mess, and the difference between
- Author: Kaltman, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1736947796
- Language: English
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The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: Stories
$21.99 Add to cartNamed a Best Book of the Year by
Amazon, Barnes & Noble, The Guardian (London), The Independent (London), Kirkus Reviews, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Telegraph (London),- Author: Mantel, Hilary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 125007472X
- Language: English
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The Corner of East and Dreams
$19.99 Add to cartThe Corner of East and Dreams is a collection of nineteen stories which are off-kilter in some way. The stories include re-tellings — Cassie Bunyan’s Yarn which gives a voice to Paul Bunyan’s wife; T… [more below]
- Author: Connor, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: January 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1955062269
- Language: English
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Witch Hunt & Black Cloud: New & Collected Works
$19.95 Add to cartThe ultimate collector’s edition of Juliet Escoria’s short stories from Black Cloud, poetry from Witch Hunt, and new work, with an introduction by Scott McClanahan (The Sarah Book).
The wickedly dark,… [more below]
- Author: Escoria, Juliet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1955904901
- Language: English
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Flashbulb Memories: Short Stories on the Roller Coaster of Parenthood and Family
$17.99 Add to cartFlashbulb Memories is the vibrant story of a closely-knit, bubbly family traveling in the twists and turns of life. The enchanting narrative takes shape in light and amusing steps through a series of
- Author: Saint-Denis, Cécilia Y
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1627204814
- Language: English
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Rising Up on Ordinary Days
$19.99 Add to cartWith an authentic style and three-dimensional characters that brings to mind Barbara Kingsolver and Jacqueline Mitchard, Judy McGinn’s debut short story collection Rising Up on Ordinary Days ushers us
- Author: McGinn, Judy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: August 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1957221119
- Language: English
